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Acrapex rhabdoneura

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Noctuidae

Scientific name
  
Acrapex rhabdoneura

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Acrapex

Rank
  
Species

Acrapex rhabdoneura is a species of moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in Africa, including Kenya.

The wingspan is 22–26 mm.

Description

Head, thorax, and abdomen pale ochreous slightly tinged with rufous; palpi dark brown. Fore wing pale ochreous slightly irrorated with brown; the costal edge and interspaces of costal area suffused with reddish brown; a diffused red-brown fascia in and below cell to near termen where it meets an oblique brown fascia from termen below apex to vein 2 with a pale oblique fascia before it from apex ; a white streak on extremity of median nervure slightly hooked on discocellulars ; the veins beyond the cell streaked with white to the subterminal fascia; a fine red-brown terminal line; cilia brown mixed with ochreous. Hind wing pure white; the underside with the costal area tinged with ochreous.

References

Acrapex rhabdoneura Wikipedia